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Lessons for Charlotte and her sister cities
Car-free Life for a Family of Four in Delft, Netherlands
Martin Zimmerman
May 18, 2022
Podcast
Listen: What's next for Charlotte transit?
Ely Portillo
May 18, 2022
Summit
Searching for solutions for Charlotte’s affordable housing crisis
Ely Portillo
May 16, 2022
Transportation
Charlotte's big goal: Take half of all trips in something besides a car
Ely Portillo
May 10, 2022
Podcast
Investors buying up the American dream
Ely Portillo
May 5, 2022
Transit Time
Charlotte's transit riders are returning — slowly
Steve Harrison, WFAE
May 5, 2022
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Examining housing needs at Brookhill Village in the event of redevelopment
February 10, 2022
Research
An ‘economic halo’ for rural churches in North Carolina
Ely Portillo
January 11, 2022
Segregation & Section 8
How are Housing Choice Vouchers distributed across Southeastern Cities?
Katie Zager
October 29, 2021
Integrated Data
How can we measure the developmental impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on young children?
Sydney Idzikowski
October 11, 2021
Equity
Supporting Charlotte’s minority-owned small businesses
Angelique Gaines
June 29, 2021
Transportation & Economic Mobility
Poverty suburbanization and job access: A new study tests ‘spatial mismatch’
Ely Portillo
June 16, 2021
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The 2019 Schul Forum
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Charlotte's library through the decades
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Letting rivers run wild again in Badin and Great Falls
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The Sandhills AGInnovation Center promotes farming
Carolinas Urban-Rural Connection
Innovative agriculture connects farmers to urban centers
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Knitting together a region with the Carolina Thread Trail
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Mapping unequal health care access in Charlotte
Mary Louise Orr Wilson, Malia Suhren, Margaret Phipps
April 18, 2022
Data
Explore local housing data with new interactive maps
Ely Portillo
April 4, 2022
Data
Explore everything from residential segregation to how much trash you generate with new maps
Ely Portillo
December 15, 2021
Data
New maps let you explore patterns of income, racial segregation and more
Ely Portillo
September 20, 2021
Planning & Development
Part 1: How the Blue Line Extension changed Charlotte development
Nathan Griffin
September 7, 2021
Planning & Development
Part 2: The relationship between design and transit use
Nathan Griffin
September 7, 2021